AFP reports: The personal data of thousands of U.S. government workers was not compromised in a recently reported cyber attack, officials said Thursday amid fresh allegations that Chinese hackers accessed computers housing employee information. The Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Homeland Security took steps to mitigate the possible breach as soon as…
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SingPass breach: time for government agencies to take security more seriously
Alfred Siew reports: Perhaps the worst thing that can happen after the recent SingPass security breach is to assume it cannot happen again. This idea that everything is working fine is foolhardy, after news last week that three of the 1,560 compromised SingPass accounts were used to apply for work permits. Thus it’s disappointing to hear the government saying there are no…
Russian hacker captured in 2010 Broadway Grill data breach
A 30-year-old Russian man was arrested over the weekend for a series of crimes involving hacking into point of sales systems at Washington restaurants including a data breach in 2010 that involved stealing credit card information from hundreds of customers of Capitol Hill’s Broadway Grill. The allegations detail at least $1.7 million in losses to banks and…
NG: Fraudsters hack into Ogun account
KingFemii reports: Suspected internet fraudsters have reportedly hacked into Ogun State-owned mortgage bank, Gateway Savings and Loans Limited, and stole millions of Naira. [1 million Nigerian Naira = $6,146.29 – Dissent] Men of Ogun State Police Command are investigating the multi-million Naira fraud. It sounds like some heavy-handed tactics for investigating a hack, and it’s…
DK: Police were warned during hacker attack
AJ reports on a breach that allegedly involved a Danish hacker and Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Wargi: Denmark’s most devastating hacker attack could have been prevented from escalating if the national police Rigspolitiet and the IT company CSC had reacted to a critical report by Deloitte in June 2012, Politiken reports. By the time…
Boston man charged in Twitter hack
SAN JOSE – Cameron Lacroix was charged today in San Jose with hacking Zendesk, a San Francisco company that provides helpdesk support to numerous companies, including Twitter, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson. According to the criminal information, Lacroix, 25, of New Bedford, Mass., hacked into Zendesk’s…